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Our 51st Year

“The Distributor” Orange County Model A Ford Club

Editors: Peter & Ana Hyland May 2012 Volume 52 Number 5

President’s Letter

May 2012

The Distributor Volume 52 # 5 May 2012 Orange County Model A Ford Club

2010 BOARD MEMBERS President—Richard Parrish 714-393-8582 [email protected] VP/Activities–Walt Otto 949-497-2858 [email protected] Frank Mowrer 949-581-7621 [email protected] Secretary– Tissy Hatcher 714-431-1119 [email protected] Treasurer -Joe Goff 949-768-4627 [email protected] Technical–Rick Hall 714-282-0499 email:[email protected] Editors – Peter & Ana Hyland 714-633-5797 [email protected] Immediate Past President Mark Schwing 714-970-1696 [email protected]

COMMITTEES ACCC Representative- Larry Conkol 714-535-1411 Breakfast Committee- Terry Collings 714-970-7194 [email protected] Club Greeter-Doris Marshall 310-378-5061 [email protected] Election Chairperson-

Kathie Mc Call 714-633-0946 [email protected] Historian & Librarian- Dick Smith 949-770-6847 [email protected] Merchandise Director Cathy O’Brien 714-777-0771 [email protected] Pancake Breakfast Setup & Coordination-Mark Schwing 714-970-1696 [email protected] Raffle– TBA Refreshments-Colleen Schmidt 714-524-2659 [email protected] Regional Representative– SCRG Carolyn Ratzlaff 714-529-5062 [email protected] Scholarship Committee Joanie Harris 562-431-9630 [email protected] Sheila Plotkin 714-962-2117 Carolyn Ratzlaff 714-529-5062 [email protected] Sunshine & Sorrow Jeanne Parrish 714-999-0611 [email protected] John Knox 562-697-2545 [email protected] Web Master-Chris Enright 949-481-8780 [email protected] Web Site Info Entry-TBA

Ready or not here we come. The 51st OC Pancake breakfast May 20th, only days away.

Frank Reese is our breakfast chairman and is pulling it to-gether after an overwhelming members vote to reactivate our popular event. He needs a commitment from each of you to back up your vote and make it another success to be proud of.

OK, there is more to OCMAFC than the breakfast. Read our Distributor this month and every month. Rick Hall can help you with technical problems. Call him and attend his seminars. If you have a specific need maybe he will set up a club seminar to fix your problem.

Walt Otto and Frank Mowrer have tours both short and long coming up. They can always use your suggestions. Remember that place you said “This would make a great Model A tour”? Is your picture in the web site roster?

Do you attend the 4th Thursday breakfast, the 1st Saturday breakfast, eaten at Polly’s before the general meeting, gone to McDonalds for a mocha after the meeting? There is so much going on with good friends. Are you missing out, or do you prefer to read about it in The Distributor?

With this warm spring weather, I'm hard at work preparing the Town Sedan for the long trek to Marquette Michigan for the MAFCA National Meet in June. The new Goodyear tires are being installed on the powder coated wheels, the engine is be-ing changed out, brakes checked out, a battery cut off switch installed, a firewall insulator installed to go with that new air conditioner I'm installing.

It looks like a four week trip with driving both ways, most of a week at the convention and another week at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn. The McCall’s and Cote’s will fly in and join us for the convention and museum.

Tune up and shine up your “A” for a summer of great fun!

Richard

Orange County Model A Ford Club The Distributor Volume 52 # 5 May 2012

Activity Schedule

NEXT MEETING:

May 10, 2012

Deadline for next Distributor is May 30, 2012 Type or write all articles and ads and e-mail to: [email protected] or [email protected]

Or mail to: 244 No Goldenspur Way, Orange, CA 92869-4422

SWAP MEETS

Jun 24 (SUN) Henry Ford

Picnic in Santa Fe Springs (We should try to attend other club’s functions)

Jul 13-15 (FRI-SUN) Wings and

Wheels in Solvang This will probably

be the last year for this event. Do come and make this a great “farewell” event!!! Bev Marsh will have a sign up sheet at the meeting. We will be arranging a tour to leave from Garden Grove and around Fullerton and will meet up together at another stop. Be sure to make your room reservations at Pea Soup Anderson's in Buellton. Tell them you are with the Orange County Model A Club. Their number is 800-732-7687. Very limited available rooms so call ASAP. I will get the tour registration forms to you as soon as I get them. Last year's cost was $75 per person. That included overhead for the event, coffee and Danishes during break on Sat-urday's tour and dinner and breakfast at the hangar at the Santa Inez airport. Bring your A

or your modern car.

May 6 (SUN)- Perris 27th Annual

Antique Truck show and swap meet

at the Perris Train Museum $7.00 admis-sion. 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. 951-588-6007

May 13 (SUN) Long Beach Swap Meet

at Long Beach Veterans Stadium. This Swap Meet doesn’t have many Model A parts, but it’s a great place to pick up tools, paint and polishing products, fasteners and electrical items.

May 5 (SAT) First Saturday Breakfast

B S Session– Nikko’s ( New name—- Same place as always) on Chapman Ave in Orange.

*May 25 - 28 (FRI. - MON.) 50th NCRG

Roundup, in Sonora, CA

2012 Tour/ Activities Calendar

May 3 Board meeting 7:00PM at the office of Lisa Bannister Bannister Insurance 305 17th Street Huntington Beach, CA 92648

May 20 (Sun) 51st Orange County

Model a Ford Annual Pancake Break-

fast is Back!!! Hart Park in the City

of Orange beginning at 8:00 AM.

Come one-Come all and enjoy. See

club web site (www.ocmafc.org)for

Flyer and other information.

May 26 (Sat) - Technical

Seminar at Tom Endy’s

garage. Subject: Electrical

Troubleshooting. Bring your car

and a test light! Tom’s address: 5881 Iroquois Rd. Westminster, CA 92683

Start Time: 10:00 a.m

(More Swap Meet Info on Page 6)

Orange County Model Ford A Club The Distributor Volume 52 # 5 May 2012

Tips from Rick, Technical Advisor

Rattling Doors

Do your Model A doors rattle as you drive down the road? Has a

door ever popped open when you rounded a corner? (Seat belts are

a great idea!) The problem here is usually weak or

broken latch springs, and worn or missing rubber

bumpers around the doors.

Many of the cars in our club are Coupes, Tudors and

pick up’s. Those bodies were built by Ford and have

simple latches that are easy to repair, so this article

will focus on those types of doors. The bodies built

by Murray and Briggs have door latches that are

much more complicated with numerous rivets and

complex springs, so we will save these for another

time.

To remove the latch, first take out the screws hold-

ing the outside door handle. Pull the handle out,

then turn it to one side and pull some more until it is

out of the door. Then remove the four screws hold-

ing the latch, and pull the latch out of the door.

Purchase two new door latch rivets and a door latch

spring set from your favorite Model A parts supplier,

usually for less than $8.00. Before you take the

latch apart, take some pictures from various per-

spectives so you can see how it goes back together -

this is a time saving step!

Push out the latch pin with a small drift or 3” nail to

release the “U” shaped spring from the hous-

ing. Note how the spring fits and the worn spots

where the “legs” of the spring rest.

Check the door handle return spring - it’s the circular

one with one long leg. It keeps your outside door

handle in the horizontal position. If you are going to

replace it, you will need to use a large screwdriver

or vice grips to bend open the housing for the door

handle mechanism.

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Bend the outside part of the “U” shaped housing, as it is a single piece of sheet

metal, while the other side is double and won’t bend. This is the perfect time to

clean all the parts with some solvent and wire brush. Dry the parts and lubricate

with Vaseline petroleum jelly.

Place the door handle return spring onto the door handle mechanism and replace

it in the “U” shaped housing (that you bent open). Place the housing in a vice and

carefully bend it back into position so that it can easily rotate with the door han-

dle shaft inserted. Be careful not to crush the part that the door handle shaft fits

in - it’s soft pot metal.

Now take the latch spring and place it in the latch piece. (This is where the pic-

tures come in handy!) The “legs” fit into the worn spots on the latch. The legs

on the reproduction springs are too long, so you will need to clip off about ¼” of

each leg with a pair of dikes. Place the latch and spring into the housing and put

the pin through its holes in the housing, latch and spring. When you are con-

vinced that the spring is in the correct position, upset the pin with a “C” clamp or

a punch and anvil.

Now that the latch is fully restored, place it back in the door - this part is

tricky. Place the latch mechanism in the door, bottom side first, so that the long

leg of the handle return spring goes inside the door. Then push the outside edge

into the door - this may take a few tries as you have to get both sides of the latch

piece into the hole in the door. Once in the door, pull the inside edge of the

mechanism out about ½” from the door, and use and old screwdriver with a notch

ground into the blade to push the “U” shaped part of the spring so that it fits in-

side the frame of the door. Push the mechanism fully into the door and replace

the four screws that hold it in the door. Replace the door handle and attach with

two screws. Now the latch should work like new.

Check the striker plate - it may need adjustment. If its too worn, nice quality re-

productions are available with the correct screws for about $3.50 each.

Check the rubber door bumpers. If they are worn or missing or just old and hard,

replace them. Reproduction kits are available for $10-12. You may find that the

new ones are too thick and need trimming. The best way I have found to do this

is by trimming the back of the rubber. This preserves the appearance, shape and

smooth surface needed for your door to close properly. I use the fine grinding

wheel on my bench grinder to do the trimming. Use heavy gloves, pliers and eye

protection!

These simple steps should make your doors close more easily, stay closed and

rattle much less. Now you’ll be able to hear your windows rattle! I’ll address

window channels in another article.

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Lemon, Lime, or Orange Jello Cake

(Corrected Recipe)

by Bev Marsh Mix together in one bowl, all at one time:

1 pkg. of any yellow (or white) cake mix

1 box of lemon, lime or orange jello

4 whole eggs

3/4 c. salad oil

3/4 c. water

Pour into 9x13 pan. Bake for 35 minutes at 350° After cake is done, remove from the oven. While it is warm, poke holes in it with a fork and pour this mixture over the top: 1 1/2 c. powdered sugar 1/2 c. juice (fresh or frozen or bottled)

Sooo good and easy too!

Join us for good food and great

company...

Fourth Thursday

Breakfast Bunch

May 24 8:30 a.m.

IHOP

13126 Jamboree Road

(in the Market Place Near Target)

714-665-8763

Info--Terry Collings 714-970-7194

Maintenance Tip From Rick Hall

Did you know that Petroleum Jelly (Vaseline) is a great lubricant for use on

you Model “A”? It works great on parts that move “occasionally,” such as win-

dow riser mechanisms, door latches, seat adjusters etc. The reason it works

well is that it stays put and doesn’t dry out or turn into wax. Don’t use it any-

where in the drive train, high heat areas, or wheel bearings.

Do you have a tip or a hint on how to keep our Model “A”s running well? Call

Rick Hall and we’ll get it published in The Distributor.

May 27 (SUN) 38th annual La Palma

Car Show and parts exchange, La Palma

Park, Anaheim

June 10 (SUN) Long Beach Swap

Meet at Long Beach Veterans Stadium.

June 30 (SAT) Orange County

Model T Ford Club Parts Exchange and Car Show 6:AM- 2:00 PM El Dorado High School 1651 Valencia Ave., Placentia 92870

More Swap meets

http://www.best-of-web.com/pages/100314-200853-986042.html


FOR SALE Big Tex 18’ tandem

axle flat bed car trailer in very good

condition.

Locking ramps, Tires are near new, and the trailer is stored off the ground with the tires covered, Spare tire, Tool box, Electric brakes near new, Lights, Wired for an electric winch, Plywood deck, Rails all around, Set back jack with ground support plate, Fenders, 5 tire covers, Adjust-able height hitch ball support

Asking $1,900

For more information please give

Alan Bennett a call at 818-317-

2531 cell or Home 818-222-4432 03/12

FOR

SALE: 1931 Deluxe

Roadster with Rumble Seat. Beautifully re-stored, blue with yellow stripping with trunk. Has won many trophies. Housed in Corona del Mar $25,000 or best offer. Nancy

Goodlad (949) 673-7377 04/12

FOR SALE: 1931 Deluxe S/W

Fordor Sedan All original, used for

touring many years $15,000

1931 Deluxe Phaeton Beautifully re-stored, same owner since the

1960's. $40,000

Mark Mariola 714-925-0905

Larry Boef 714-774-2477 04/12

FOR SALE 1929 Ford Model A Sport Coupe

A pristine ’29 Sport Coupe in excellent condition and proper running order. Forest green body and black fenders, white canvas soft top (as it should be), brand new Firestone WW tires on sandblasted and powder coated, bright yellow 21 inch wheels. Reupholstered rumble seat with removable cushions. Originally a trunk. Step plates on running boards and rear bumper to get in the rumble seat. Re-cored radiator and new stone guard and Quail. Working horn. The whole car was rebuilt from the chassis a few years back by master mechanic (name on request). Has had little use. Mechanically perfect with the following enhancements:

Starter is operated from the steering column.

Foot starter is still there and working as well.

All mechanical brakes and steering. Checked and rechecked.

Temperature and charging gauge.

Original 6 volts system with alternator.

Cowl lights just installed but not connected.

Signal lights on an independent 12 volt battery

in trunk. Clear title, of course. $13,000.00

Why sell it? I am building a Speedster and have

no room for two, unfortunately. Giorgio Perissinotto Santa Barbara 805-637-9810

E-mail [email protected] 05/12

mailto:[email protected]


HISTORIANS CORNER Dick Smith, Club Historian, May /2012

This month, the “Historians Corner” will feature an

article from the internet, Author, unknown.

“The first car radio”.

ROMANTIC EVENING IN 1929

One evening, in 1929, two young men named William Lear

and Elmer Wavering drove their girlfriends to a lookout point high

above the Mississippi River town of Quincy, Illinois to watch the

sunset. It was a romantic night to be sure, but one of the women

observed that it would be even nicer if they could listen to music in

the car (I’ll assume it was a Model A).

Lear and Wavering liked the idea. Both men had a tink-

ered with radios (Lear had served as a radio operator in the U.S.

Navy during World War I) and it wasn’t long before they were

taking apart a home radio and trying to get it to work in a car. But

it wasn’t as easy as it sounds: automobiles have ignition switches,

generators, spark plugs, and other electrical equipment that gener-

ate noisy static interference, making it nearly impossible to listen to

the radio when the engine was running.

One by one, Lear and Wavering identified and eliminated

each source of electrical interference. When they finally got their

radio to work, they took it to a radio convention in Chicago. There

they met Paul Galvin, owner of Galvin Manufacturing Corporation.

He made a product called a “battery eliminator” a device that al-

lowed battery-powered radios to run on household AC current.

But as more homes were wired for electricity, more radio manu-

facturers made AC-powered radios. Galvin needed a new product

to manufacture. When he met Lear and Wavering at the radio con-

vention, he found it. He believed that mass-produced, affordable

car radios had the potential to become a huge business.

Lear and Wavering set up shop in Galvin’s factory, and

when they perfected their first radio, they installed it in his Stude-

baker. Then Galvin went to a local banker to apply for a loan.

Thinking it might sweeten the deal, he had his men install a radio in

the bankers Packard. Good idea, but it didn’t work- - Half an hour

after the installation, the bankers Packard caught on fire. (They

didn’t get the loan.) Galvin didn’t give up. He drove his Studebaker

nearly 800 miles to Atlantic City to show off the radio at the 1930

Radio Manufacturers Association convention. Too broke to afford

a booth, he parked the car outside the convention hall and cranked

up the radio so that passing conventioneers could hear it. That idea

worked - - He got enough orders to put the radio into production.

WHAT’S IN A NAME

That first production model was called the 5T71. Galvin decided he

needed to come up with something a little catchier. In those days

many companies in the phonograph and radio businesses used the

suffix “ola” for their names - - Radiola, Columbiola, and Victrola

were three of the biggest. Galvin decided to do the same thing, and

since his radio was intended for use in a motor vehicle, he decided

to call it the Motorola. But even with the name change, the radio

still had problems: When Motorola went on sale in 1930 it cost

about $110 uninstalled, at a time when you could buy a brand-new

car for $650, and the country was sliding into the Great Depres-

sion. (By that measure, a radio for a new car would cost about

$3,000 today.) In 1930 it took two men several days to put in a car

radio - - The dashboard had to be taken apart so that the

receiver and a single speaker could be installed, and the ceil-

ing had to be cut open to install the antenna. These early

radios ran on their own battery, no on the car battery, so

holes had to be cut into the floorboard to accommodate

them. The installation manual had eight complete diagrams

and 28 pages of instructions.

HIT THE ROAD

Selling complicated car radios that cost 20 percent

of the price of a brand-new car wouldn’t have been easy in

the best of times, let alone during the Great Depression - -

Galvin lost money in 1930 and struggled for a couple of

years after that. But things picked up in 1933 when Ford

began offering Motorola’s pre installed at the factory. In

1934 they got another boost when Galvin struck a deal with

B.F. Goodrich tire company to sell and install them in its

chain of tire stores.

By then the price of the radio, installation included,

had dropped to $55. The Motorola car radio was off and

running. (The name of the company would be officially

changed from Galvin Manufacturing to “Motorola” in 1947.)

In the meantime, Galvin continued to develop new uses for

car radios. In 1936, the same year that it introduced push-

button tuning, it also introduced the Motorola Police

Cruiser, a standard car radio that was factory preset to a

single frequency to pickup police broadcasts. In 1940 he

developed the first handheld two-way radio - - The Handy

Talkie - - for the U.S. Army.

A lot of the communications technologies that we

take for granted today were born in Motorola labs in the

years that followed World War II. In 1947 they came out

with the first television to sell under $200. In 1956 the com-

pany introduced the world’s first pager; in 1969 it supplied

the radio and television equipment that was used to televise

Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the moon. In 1973 it in-

vented the world’s first handheld cellular phone. Today Mo-

torola is one of the largest cell phone manufacturer in the

world - - And it all started with the car radio.

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO

The two men who installed the first radio in Paul Galvin’s

car, Elmer Wavering and William Lear, ended up taking very

different paths in life. Wavering stayed with Motorola. In the

1950’s he helped change the automobile experience again

when he developed the first automotive alternator, replac-

ing inefficient and unreliable generators. The invention lead

to such luxuries as power windows, power seats, and even-

tually, air-conditioning.

Lear also continued inventing. He holds more than

150 patents. Remember eight- track tape players? Lear in-

vented that. But what he’s really famous for are his contri-

butions to the field of aviation. He invented radio direction

finders for planes, aided in the invention of the autopilot,

designed the first fully automatic aircraft landing system, and

in 1963 introduced his most famous invention of all, the

Lear Jet, the world’s first mass-produced, affordable busi-

ness jet. (Not bad for a guy who dropped out of school af-

ter the eighth grade.)

I hope to see you soon at the Pancake Breakfast.

Dick Smith, Club Historian.


SAVE THE DATE

Sunday, December 9, 2012

Annual Installation & Awards Banquet

Tustin Banquet Center

First Street & 55 Freeway

Tustin

MARCH ROSTER DRAWING (Don Ratzlaff)

The April Roster Drawing is history; the names drawn were Robert and Mandy

Cohen. Unfortunately, they reside in Colorado and were not in attendance so

the prize for May increases to $130. Hope to see you in May and good luck!

Sunshine & Sorrow By Jeanne Parrish

.Condolences go out to Joanne Nichols, Red Sickman and Frank Mowrer for

the family members they have lost in the last month: Jo's mother, 97 years

young, Red's sister and Frank's brother all passed away early April.

Doris Marshall has just had shoulder surgery, is having some pain with it, but

you know Doris...she is a "Wonder Woman" for sure.

Carolyn Ratzlaff has undergone some oral surgery with some discomfort, but

getting along OK.

Pam Otto has had a time of it for approx. couple of months, now. She initially

went to the hospital with peritonitis, ended up with some other major prob-

lems and hospital stay became much longer. Happy to report she is finally

home with wound care and various types of therapy.

Hoping we will soon see these members back in tip top shape.

"Baby Girl Schaner" has not arrived as of this printing. Proud and very happy,

parents-to-be, Kathleen and Kevin anxiously awaiting her arrival. Will report

on her at the general meeting!!

Ed & Patty Cote have been enjoying a great trip back East and have been

gone almost a month. Hope you two had a good time taking in all the tourist

attractions.


New Member

Welcome

Jim & Robyn Michaeloff

4424 Birchwood Ave

Seal Beach, CA 90740

(H) 562-493-3880

(C) 562-537-7767

Email: [email protected]

Building a 1929 Speedster-open top

Original Chassis w/improvements

Do you collect the MAFCA Restorer maga-zines? If so, I have many copies from the mid-70’s too current, that were donated by our members to be shared with current OCMAFC members at no cost. Just contact me with your issues desired. I also have older issues at a minimal cost from another club.

Contact: Dick Smith, club historian at [email protected] or call 949-770-6847

Roster Correction

Cell Phone Change

Ronnie Eliot

714-296-8258


CAR BARN SPECIALS

Member ads will run two months unless renewed. Non member ads will run one month unless renewed.

All ads must be submitted in writing to: [email protected] or OCMAFC Editors 244 No. Goldenspur Way,

Orange, CA 92869-4422

Visit MAFCA’s Web Site: www.mafca.com/classifieds.html

For Sale

1. 1930 R. Front Fender in good condition/black ($125.00) 2. Rear spare wheel mount for 1930-31 ($45.00) Dale Mc Call 714-633-0946 04/12

FOR SALE:

FOR SALE 1929 closed cab

pickup After many years on club tours

it has been stored for the last several years

due to health

issues.

Comes with a

spare running

engine. The

truck is com-

plete but

needs a new

home and some TLC.

Priced to sell quickly at $3,000 OBO,

no low-ball offers please. Call Les

White at 714-403-0505 and leave your

name and phone number, he will call

after work. 03/12

FOR RENT: Garage

Newly Painted in Costa Mesa.

$195.00/Mo (negotiable)

Contact: Steve McNash @ 949-933-0353

03/12

FOR SALE 1931 Model A

45-B two door five window special coupe

with rumble seat. The car is almost com-pletely "stock", just as Henry Ford made it. Completely me-chanically rebuilt and runs well.

Painted authentic Ford colors, Wash-ington blue and Riviera Blue w/Black finders and aprons. It's a "10" footer. At 10" it looks perfect. A closer inspection reveals imper-fections in the paint. It's an older paint job and there are visible chips and cracks Car is truly a representative of 81 year old automotive technology that was so popular during the four years of Model A produc-tion. Offered at $13,500, OBO Orange County Model A Ford Club member,

Van Aposhian 949-461-0056 03/12

(More Car Barn Specials on Page 7)

FOR SALE Four brand new Firestone 19"

tires, tubes and liners, mounted on four black powder coated 19" wheels. Never been mounted on car. Price in new Bratton’s

catalog is $1300.

$900 OBO

Call Richard 714-393-8582 3/12

Deadline for next Distributor

May 30, 2012 Type or write all articles and advertisements and e-mail to: [email protected] Or mail to: 244 No.Goldenspur Way, Orange, CA 92869-4422

General Meeting 7:30 PM

[Second Thursday of every month]

May 10, 2012

From Main Street, turn east on to Providence Ave. and immediately, on your right, enter the structure and park on the second level. Meet-ing room is CONFERENCE ROOMS A & B

First Class Mail Web Site: www.ocmafc.com

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